On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 15:16 -0400, Dave Calkins wrote: > Matt Needles wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 18:20 +0200, Tom Schindl wrote: > > > >> Do you really need to get xls why not PDF? Do people have to change > >> things afterwards? > >> > >> Tom > >> > >> Dave Calkins schrieb: > >> > >>> Tom Schindl wrote: > >>> > >>>>> either. Which is why we're looking for something to let us directly > >>>>> write the binary file format and OOo seemed liked a good possibility. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> Did you thought about jakarta-POI? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> Thanks for the pointer. I'll definitely take a look at that as well. > >>> The downside there is that its Java and we're using C++, so we'd need to > >>> do JNI or run a VM process and use RMI or something. Then that also > >>> requires including the Java runtime with our installer. Anyway, worth > >>> looking into and keeping on the list of possibilities. > >>> > >>> Dave > >>> > >>> > > If I were doing this, to avoid trying to produce a binary file in a > > format that is not documented outside of Redmond, I would try producing > > a file using the new Office XML format. That might be easier, too. > > > > > > I didn't think the new format opened in older versions of office. I > don't think we want to require our customers to have Office 2007. Does > OOo support the new format? > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
That format was introduced with Office 2003. OOo 2.x supports it. Matt --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
